Carnegie’s paper warns that the nuclear danger is no longer just about who has the bomb. The more awkward problem is the growing zone just below it – states building the ability to go nuclear fast while denying they have crossed the line.

RUSI’s Newsbrief delivers a cold security message for the decade ahead. Europe can no longer treat US protection as a permanent safety net, no matter how often leaders praise alliance unity.

The European Parliament briefing lays out a blunt problem at the heart of EU defence. Europe is spending more, planning more and launching more instruments – but still buys weapons like 27 separate countries protecting 27 separate industrial comfort zones.

Defense Priorities’ op-ed delivers a blunt message from the US restraint camp: Europe must defend itself.

The DIIS brief warns that Europe’s idea of strategic autonomy is changing fast. This is no longer mainly about crisis missions, statebuilding or flying the EU flag in fragile states. It is turning into defence-industrial coordination, arms production, training, battlefield learning and military supply chains.

The IISS analysis delivers a harsh warning for European defence. A flagship Franco-German-Spanish plan to build a next-generation fighter now looks broken. The project was meant to prove Europe could act like a serious military power. Instead, it has exposed the same old problem: national industry, political pride and strategic mistrust getting in the way of hard capability.

Europe’s air forces are chasing drones while the real shortage sits under their wings. The RUSI commentary argues that NATO’s European members do not first need a new fantasy fleet of uncrewed aircraft. They need missiles and bombs – quickly, in depth and in the right types.